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It's malignant. 2020 was just remission, now it's back, only worse

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Claiming that noise is a matter of culture is nonsense. Destroying one of the most valuable and fragile elements of our environment - silence - has nothing to do with culture, it’s just pure vandalism. Any idiot can make noise, but try generating silence https://t.co/2pgDemw7qw

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Mamdani cancella Little Italy. E con essa, l'idea stessa di integrazione | InOltre https://t.co/8R34SaQQwm

[Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz @KosiniakKamysz]

Ci, ktorzy krytykują polskie wsparcie dla Ukrainy, są suwerenni od
rozumu. Mnie to do szału doprowadza!

Można i trzeba liczyć pociski w magazynie, ale warto też liczyć te, które dzięki zaangażowaniu Ukrainy nigdy do Polski nie doleciały!

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

This week, our warriors achieved important results in imposing long-range sanctions against Russian facilities that fuel this war.

Ukrainian drones reached Siberia and struck the oil refinery in Omsk – nearly 2,500 kilometers from Ukraine. Now, no Russian oil refinery is beyond the reach of Ukrainian weapons.

Our responses to Russian strikes also targeted oil facilities in the Saratov, Rostov, Tver, Stavropol, and Krasnodar regions, as well as in Tatarstan and Bashkortostan. An airfield in the Voronezh region and a strategic enterprise in Tver were hit. Drones were also used against facilities in the Moscow, Leningrad, and Bryansk regions.

Our long-range sanctions plan against Russia is firmly on track. I thank all of the units involved for their accuracy!

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Browder: Putin started a war because he stole so much money that he became afraid of his own people.

The easiest way to stop people turning against you is to create a foreign enemy. That is Machiavelli 101. 1/

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is bad.

Yesterday Trump fired every member of the Election Assistance Commission.

What’s left is a federal election agency with nobody running it, four months before a vote that decides who controls Congress.

Congress built this agency after the 2000 election mess and balanced it on purpose. Two members from each party, so no one could hijack it. That balance is gone now. With no commissioners, the agency cannot certify voting machines or protect the national voter registration form. Trump had been pushing it to add hurdles for voters, and courts kept blocking him.

So he cleared out the people who kept saying no.

It’s all part of an obvious and disturbing pattern. He still falsely claims 2020 was stolen. He has spent years attacking mail ballots and voting machines. He tried to rewrite the rules, lost repeatedly in court, and now fires the referees instead. When the game doesn’t go his way, he swaps out who holds the whistle.

We will fight this in the courts and every other way we can.

Americans decide our elections, not one man out of touch with reality firing everyone who might tell him no.

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[Johanna Nyman @JohannaNyman5]

The largest, deadliest, and longest war in Europe since World War II is unfolding right now. Yet you wouldn’t know it from many European peace organizations. Instead of speaking out against the crimes against humanity that Russia is committing in Ukraine, these so-called “peace movements” are preoccupied with criticizing Europe’s rearmament—the direct consequence of Russian aggression.

It is a monumental betrayal of the Ukrainian people, and I hope those involved in these organizations carry the weight of that betrayal with them for the rest of their lives.

[Adam Szłapka @adamSzlapka]

Były wiceminister w rządzie Kaczyńskiego organizuje pomoc humanitarną dla rosyjskich żołnierzy. Kiedy prezes PiS potępi swojego byłego podwładnego?

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

President Stubb: You have to ask yourself who has won, who has lost. I say Ukraine has won.

Ukraine, after four and a half years, still stands strong and has not allowed Russia to invade them, then by definition they will have won.

So look at things from a Moscow perspective.
In the past four years during the active war, they have advanced 60 kilometers. In World War Two, they went from Moscow to Berlin. That's 1,400 kilometers.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

APPLEBAUM: Putin's war finally reached Moscow. Muscovites having trouble functioning normally in capital and been subjected, for the first time, to real drone campaigns. They finally see the war and beginning to understand that they're not winning, and that war is coming closer.

[Giorgi Revishvili @revishvilig]

General Vadym Skibitksy, Deputy Head of Ukraine's Defense Intelligence (HUR):

Today, the average survival time of a [Russian] soldier on the battlefield is no more than about 3 minutes. 1/11

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

For the first time since 2022, Ukraine has a coherent theory of victory. Instead of grinding down the Russian army at huge cost, Kyiv now destroys Russia's capacity to wage war.

It targets the revenue, fuel, and the supply lines that feed the front — Christian Caryl, FP. 1/

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

This is what leaders do when they don’t want free and fair elections. I’ve studied these activities in other countries moving towards autocracy.

[Marco Setaccioli @marsetac]

Quando spari una balla in stile Travaglio, il minimo che devi aspettarti è che te ne vengano smentite due. Al meeting campolarghesco di Napoli @GiuseppeConteIT ha applicato la classica tecnica manipolatoria del Direttore del Fatto, che consiste nel prendere delle dichiarazioni, riportandone solo singole porzioni, per attribuire ai personaggi citati concetti opposti a quelli reali.

Stanno costruendo un pericolo russo che in realtà non esiste per giustificare un riarmo che è quindi inutile, ha detto sostanzialmente Conte, riferendosi esplicitamente alle parole del generale americano Alexus G. Grynkewich, il più alto in grado del comando NATO in Europa, che a suo parere avrebbe dichiarato al Financial Times “che la Russia non rappresenta una minaccia per l’Europa”.

Peccato che, come confermato al @ilfoglio_it, per il comando dell’Alleanza Atlantica la Russia sia una minaccia, eccome. Semplicemente secondo Washington non è alla ricerca di uno scontro diretto grazie alla deterrenza, cioè proprio a quelle spese militari che il leader del M5S ha concluso invece essere non necessarie.

Ma veramente qualcuno pensa di allearsi con questo venditore di pentole tarocche per battere Meloni?

[NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @NOELreports]

Russia has suspended new applications for vessel transit through the Kerch Strait and halted navigation on the Don-Azov Canal, Reuters reported. The move follows Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian vessels in the Sea of Azov. Euronext wheat futures rose 4%. #Ukraine

[Anders Åslund @anders_aslund]

It is all too obvious that Trump will do everything to steal this election.
Therefore no GOP victory will appear honest or credible.
Trump has turned the GOP into a party of his obedient criminals.

[Sébastien Lecornu @SebLecornu]

Les ingérences étrangères sont une menace réelle pour notre démocratie.

Ce n’est pas théorique, nous l'avons déjà vu lors des dernières élections municipales.

Faux médias locaux, campagnes de calomnies, contenus générés par l'intelligence artificielle, mercenariat numérique : les modes opératoires évoluent.

Notre doctrine et nos services sont solides. Mais notre arsenal juridique doit être renforcé.

Cela passe notamment par l'extension du référé anti-manipulation à toutes les élections locales et par une loi courte, présentée en Conseil des ministres d'ici la fin du mois de juillet, pour tripler les peines contre la production de faux contenus en période électorale.

Aucun parti politique, aucun candidat, quel que soit son territoire, ne peut aujourd'hui prétendre être totalement à l'abri d'une opération d'ingérence.

C'est un combat qui nous concerne tous. Pour notre démocratie.

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

Finally, someone is holding the International Olympic Committee accountable.

The IOC has spent years pretending that "neutral" status somehow separates russian athletes from the regime waging the largest war in Europe since World War II. Now, after restoring the russian Olympic Committee, it is facing consequences.

Estonia is calling on the European Commission to suspend EU funding to the IOC, arguing that sport must never become a backdoor for normalizing aggression. That's exactly right. Organizations that choose appeasement over principle should not expect European taxpayers to finance their hypocrisy.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

The question of whether Ukraine can, through diplomatic or other efforts, prevent fuel supplies to Russia from neutral countries sounds like a historical joke. A country like Russia, whose economy has always been focused on exporting its own energy resources, is now scrambling to find fuel somewhere and somehow increase its ability to import fuel. So has Ukraine prevented this yet? Ukraine already has; we have already done this.

I think that if Yeltsin had known that 20-plus years later Russia, instead of exporting energy resources, would be importing them because it had asininely decided to unleash a war, Yeltsin would have chosen a different successor.

From answers to journalists’ questions. (3/3)

[Acyn @Acyn]

Nichols: It’s almost like we have a relative in the room, and there’s something deeply wrong with him. And we’ve all agreed not to talk about it. But there is something deeply wrong with him.

His friends know it, his critics know it. His staff, I’m sure, knows it. The world knows it. World leaders know it. And most importantly, our enemies know it, which is why they don’t take him seriously.

Nobody hangs on his words. They kind of do, but mostly out of freakish curiosity to see what kind of wild thing he’s going to say next, not because his words have any inherent meaning or reflect policy.

You know, I spent years teaching students that when the president speaks, it’s policy, and you must pay attention when the president speaks because nobody can contradict him.

Now, you know, are we really cutting off all trade with Spain? Who knows? Maybe. Maybe not. It might have just been a stray electron, you know, careening around inside his brainpan. Who knows?

But this is really dangerous because in the middle of all this stuff—and we can laugh about, you know, the Islamic Republic of Japan and all of that—but he made several statements about an ongoing war that the United States is losing. And no one’s even trying to pretend that they can make any sense of it.

And I’ll just add one last thing that you just brought up.

If this were any other president, this would be a national crisis. I mean, Joe Biden got somebody’s name wrong, and it was headlines. The president gets all kinds of things wrong, completely, you know, is out to lunch at an important NATO summit, and, you know, it’s Wednesday.

[Marco Setaccioli @marsetac]

A giudicare dall’editoriale di oggi di Travaglio, lo scivolone di Conte all’evento di Napoli deve aver fatto scattare l’allarme nella redazione del Fatto. L’articolo non solo puntella l’uscita dell’avvocato del popolo, ma rilancia la questione del riarmo come elemento dirimente per la praticabilità stessa del campo largo.

È quello “il discrimine”, scrive. Avendo però cura di non raccontare tutta la storia dall’inizio, ma di limitarsi a chiedere alla politica di posizionarsi pro o contro l’acquisto di armi.

Il punto è però che Travaglio non analizza il riarmo come l'effetto o la risposta a un mutamento strutturale della sicurezza internazionale, ma quasi come un’iniziativa immotivata fine a se stessa o l'esito di una volontà deliberata. Scrive infatti che "si investe sulle guerre, che devono moltiplicarsi e durare il più possibile per giustificarlo."

In questo modo, la filiera logica viene invertita: non sono le aggressioni esterne a determinare la necessità di una difesa armata, ma è il desiderio di riarmo (guidato dalle élite) a nutrire i conflitti. Evitando di discutere le cause sistemiche della guerra (come la postura strategica della Russia o il collasso dell'architettura di sicurezza europea), il dibattito viene ridotto a una scelta di campo puramente posizionale, quasi a dare per scontato che la minaccia russa sia costruita a tavolino e non reale.

Attenzione a non derubricare questo editoriale come il solito ribaltamento alla Travaglio perché il messaggio qui è chiaro ed è un avvertimento implicito a Conte, perché non retroceda rispetto alle critiche espresse a Napoli, e soprattutto al PD, che su questo dovrà inderogabilmente calarsi le braghe se vuole costruire una coalizione.

Il pezzo conclude spiegando come con Schlein alla guida del Governo e qualcuno dei suoi alla Difesa, l’Italia continuerebbe sulla strada del riarmo, mentre con Conte & Soci al timone, sarebbe tutta un’altra cosa. Ed è difficile dubitarne, visto che Putin a quel punto non sarebbe più un nemico, ma il nuovo padrone di Palazzo Chigi.